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		<title>Just what is an arhat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arhat, or Arahant in Pali, is a term you hear a lot in Buddhism. Someone who has achieved liberation. But what does it actually mean? Well the etymology is ambigous. The traditional school reports arhat as meaning: one who is worthy. But apparently, recent research suggests that it is cognate with sanskrit Arihan: one who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stumbling along the path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because we&#8217;ve had an awakening of sorts doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;ve been transfigured. It&#8217;s a long journey. In astrological symbolism we reverse the wheel in Libra, transform the emotional nature in Scorpio, silence our thoughts in Sagittarius and become transfigured in Capricorn. I think people misunderstand the concept of sudden enlightenment. Satori itself is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/stumbling-along-the-path/</link>
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		<title>What are you doing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban are in process of destroying all the statues of the Buddha. And people are outraged, buddhists are outraged.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/what-are-you-doing/</link>
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		<title>Meditation time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It struck me as interesting the other day that the Dalai Lama spends four hours a day meditating. And in one of the experiments that has popped up in the news an experienced meditator is considered to have done 10,000 hours. If you meditate for 2 hours a day, it&#8217;s going to take you almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/meditation-time/</link>
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		<title>Meditation by sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of products out there that claim to work on the brain to product deepened meditation or enlightenment.  One came in my mailbox yesterday claiming <q>Discover how to meditate deeper than a zen monk in just five minutes - without years of practice, or hours of boring meditation CDs - by using a secret shortcut you can't find anywhere else.</q>  How do they promise to achieve this?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/meditation-by-sound/</link>
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		<title>Hypnosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To awaken from the sleep of identification with thought, even the concept of self, that's being awake.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/hypnosis/</link>
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		<title>Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond this mind you'll never see another Buddha.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/freedom/</link>
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		<title>What is mindfulness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He who can see inaction in action, and inaction in action is the wisest among men.  He is a saint, even though he still acts.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/what-is-mindfulness/</link>
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		<title>The stuff of mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citta,poem]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/the-stuff-of-mind/</link>
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